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Toby Axelrod

Toby Axelrod is JTA’s correspondent for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A former assistant director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin office, she has also worked as staff writer and editor at the New York Jewish Week and published books on Holocaust history for teenagers.

Holocaust stories and images generated by artificial intelligence are sparking debate among educators and historians. (Illustration by Grace Yagel for JTA)
Posted inTech

AI Holocaust content is booming. Is it all ‘slop’ — or a solution for fading firsthand memory?

by Toby Axelrod May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

(JTA) — Seated at a desk, the girl smiles, then looks down and begins to write in a notebook. It’s unmistakably Anne Frank. But wait — there is only one […]

The main tower at the entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, covered under a large tent, stands illuminated during the official ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation

by Toby Axelrod January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Rabbis in black robes and tallits stand in an ornate synagogue
Posted inWorld

L.A. and Jerusalem rabbis step in as battle rages over who should run German rabbinical schools

by Toby Axelrod September 19, 2024September 19, 2024
The London Jewish Chronicle on sale outside Westminster Cathedral, Jan. 23, 1966. (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Columnists resign from London Jewish Chronicle amid allegations that Gaza news was fabricated

by Toby Axelrod September 16, 2024September 16, 2024
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
Posted inFilm

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

by Toby Axelrod June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
A participant holds up a placard during a demonstration against racism and far-right politics in front of the Siegestor (Victory Gate) memorial arch in Munich, Germany, Jan. 21, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Michaela Stache-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

German protesters say meeting by far-right extremists echoed the Nazis’ notorious ‘Wannsee’ conference

by Toby Axelrod January 22, 2024January 22, 2024
Deborah Feldman poses in her living room in Berlin, March 10, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Christophe Gateau-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inTV

‘Unorthodox’ author Deborah Feldman is a lightning rod in Germany’s debate about criticizing Israel

by Toby Axelrod November 21, 2023November 21, 2023
An image from the Holocaust history virtual reality experience being developed by the Conference of Jewish Claims Against Germany. (Photo/JTA-Claims Conference)
Posted inHistory

From virtual reality to digital synagogues, tech adds new dimension to Kristallnacht commemorations in Germany

by Toby Axelrod November 9, 2023November 9, 2023
A view inside the Synagogue Neustadt's opening ceremony, Sept. 3, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Heike Neubauer-Antoci)
Posted inWorld

New synagogue in Dresden plans to operate outside of Germany’s Jewish mainstream

by Toby Axelrod September 18, 2023September 18, 2023
Remains of Munich's former main synagogue, seen at left on the eve of its destruction by the Nazis in 1938, were pulled from the Isar River on July 4, 2023.
Posted inWorld

Nazis destroyed Munich’s main synagogue in 1938. Parts of it were just found in the city’s river.

by Toby Axelrod July 7, 2023

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